WASHINGTON, D.C. - Planned Parenthood and its affiliates received $1.5 billion between 2013-2015 from American taxpayers while under investigation for harvesting and selling aborted baby body parts.

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released an extensive report last week that details the amount of federal tax dollars spent during those two years by three abortion providers including Planned Parenthood Federation of American (PPFA), Marie Stopes International (MSI), and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). The report is the result of more than 120 House and Senate members who sent a letter to the GAO requesting data on funding from federal programs received by certain organizations, including Planned Parenthood.

This is not a new view or concept. However, it is novel and specific enough for many people to cause the dense-minded among them to blink and wonder, “Why didn’t I think about that?”

Remember that many old and popular sayings are a great part of American culture and tradition. One that the Constitution guarantees every individual is so common that probably nearly everyone has heard it at one time or another. It is this: The Constitution’s purpose, as pertains to each person, is to guarantee everyone “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

After weeks of outrage at the close ties between top Democrats and Louis Farrakhan, the leader of an anti-Semitic hate group, the media finally condemned anti-Semitism by a top political official.

President Trump and OMB Director Mick Mulvaney had referred to outgoing NEC Director Gary Cohn as a “globalist.” And “globalist,” according to Think Progress, the Huffington Post, Salon and Vox, is an “anti-Semitic slur.” Those are the same media outlets that had no problem using “globalist” as a slur when targeting Trump. HuffPo had published a piece tarring him as “Trump: The Globalist Plutocrat” and Vox had described Trump going to Davos, “the world’s biggest party for globalist elites.”

This is a legal victory and it should be. It’s right on the law and it’s right on basic common sense. The idea that a student group can’t require its leaders to agree with its mission is so absurd as to be impossible to take seriously as a policy - yet where we are as a culture actually requires people who hasn’t lost all vestiges of sanity to defend this seemingly obvious notion in court.

Now, whether it’s a victory worth winning in Kingdom terms is another matter, but we’ll get to that. First the basic facts: Like many other universities, Wayne State rules that InterVarsity Christian Fellowship was in violation of its anti-discrimination policies by requiring IVCF leaders (not all members, but leaders) to adhere to Christianity. Who could argue with something so basic? The modern education establishment, that’s who, because if you have to be a Christian then atheists and adherents to other religions are on the outs, and that’s discrimination.

Council and voluntary sector staff…will be “encouraged” to wear the badges, which include messages such as “My pronouns are she/her/hers” and “My pronouns are they/their/theirs” “…Some prefer to use other gender-neutral pronouns such as ‘xe’, ‘ze’, or ‘sie’”

For a long time, Elizabeth Warren loved to tell people that she was part Cherokee. The only evidence she had to support this claim was an old family story and a pair of majestic cheekbones, but that didn’t matter. Warren says that she “never used it for anything,” but her minority status has certainly helped her virtue signal, may have been employed to help her career back in the 90’s, and was (for a time) politically beneficial. So, she stuck with it.

Here in downtown Royal Oak, we see the petition people a lot. They’re always trying to gather signatures for something. Equal pay. Redistricting reform. Forced unionization. Marijuana legalization (that one never goes too well). You name it, they’re standing outside your coffee shop or post office gathering signatures for it. It sort of reminds me of grade school, when we would decide to take up a petition to get green beans off the cafeteria menu.

Come to think of it, that never worked either. I don’t think Sister Patricia Marie cared what we wanted to eat. (Then again, that Friday pizza was awesome.)

A young man asked me, “I wanted to ask you a constitutional question regarding Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ ability to sue California for protecting illegals with sanctuary status.”

I responded, “It begins with a question about authority.”

After the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, “California absolutely, it appears to me, is using every power it has - powers it doesn’t have - to frustrate federal law enforcement. So you can be sure I’m going to use every power I have to stop them.”

If Barack Obama is going to do a production deal to develop content for Netflix - and apparently he is - he’s going to need good advice from people with a flair for the creative. One problem for Obama is that he is not quite as cool, creative or original as he thinks he is - and he tends to be surrounded by sycophants who won’t tell him when his ideas are a little short in the quality department.

I still feel the same way about the 2017 World Series as I did when it was going on: I was rooting for the Dodgers because they’re my favorite National League team, and my favorite non-Tigers team, but how could I not want Justin Verlander to win?

Then again, a good friend of mine said screw Verlander. If he wasn’t going to win it as a Tiger, why wish him well?

The Democratic Party is - despite the enthusiasm of its rabid base - in deep trouble right now. It has no money, no message, and a paper-thin bench of elderly white candidates which has already been largely rejected. They are searching, desperately, for anyone who will pull their flag out of the mud and carry it to victory.

You will, no doubt, remember the story of Kristian Saucier. He was the young Navy sailor who admitted taking a few photos of his submarine so he could show his family what he did in the military. The photos contained some relatively harmless classified information, were never shared with anyone, and led to his prosecution and conviction, his “other than honorable” discharge, and a year in prison.

In case you’ve forgotten the details, here’s the report from the Guardian...

I guess I’m to the point where I’m seeing this story on two tracks. Tariffs are bad policy and you’ll never convince me otherwise. They always add to the cost for consumers to buy things, and to companies to source things, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is being absurdly dismissive when he talks about it in terms of only adding a few cents here or a few dollars there, as if that doesn’t matter in the big picture.

It matters. President Trump has a blind spot when it comes to trade policy and it muddles his otherwise sound economic record to date.

One of the hysterical objections from those who oppose President Trump’s proposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum is that he is going to start a trade war, because other countries will retaliate with tariffs of their own.

There’s one very big problem with that argument: Other countries already have such tariffs. In fact, President Trump’s proposal isn’t the start to anything. He is the one retaliating against the unfair tariffs already levied by other countries.

In an interview last week on CNBC, Nucor CEO John Ferriola pointed out that the European Union imposes a 25 percent value-added tax on just about all goods coming into its member nations from outside. That puts American manufacturers at a distinct disadvantage as they seek to penetrate EU markets. Where is all the shrieking about the EU starting a trade war?

My brother expressed his disgust watching an animated TV show trashing Trump titled, “Our Cartoon President.” Incredibly, Leftists have hijacked the airwaves and everywhere people gather to exploit as platforms to spread their vitriolic insane hatred for Trump. Outrageously, TV coverage of the Olympics included Leftists’ hatred for the Trump Administration.

Despite the shocking discovery that leftist policies probably played a role in the deaths of 17 kids in the Florida school shooting , Leftists continue puppet mastering students to blame Trump.

Even Sunday worship has been hijacked by Leftists to trash Trump. My brother asked the pastor of his all black church to please stop including a lie-filled Democrat-talking-points rant about Trump in his sermons.

“I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help,” Ronald Reagan famously said. But the most terrifying words in every other language are, “We’re from the international community and we’re here to help.”

When an earthquake hit Haiti in ’10, everyone who was anyone in the international community quickly showed up. Bill Clinton had been appointed as the UN Special Envoy for Haiti a year earlier where he had touted the “unique opportunities for public and private investment” in Haiti. The earthquake opened up those opportunities to Clinton Foundation donors.

At one time, California was the envy of America, attracting people from around the nation to move to a state offering opportunity and the chance to pursue ambitious dreams. With scenic beauty, the Pacific Ocean coastline, the major cities of San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California recruited entrepreneurs looking for economic growth. As the home of Hollywood and multitudes of celebrities, California presented an enticing potential to enjoy “lifestyles of the rich and famous.”

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